Example sentences of "[that] [verb] take [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The special party congress , staged under the auspices of the 25-member ‘ working committee ’ that has taken over the functions of the Communist SED will last through the weekend . |
| 2 | The special party congress , staged under the auspices of the 25-member ‘ working committee ’ that has taken over the functions of the Communist SED will last through the weekend . |
| 3 | The special party congress , staged under the auspices of the 25-member ‘ working committee ’ that has taken over the functions of the Communist SED will last through the weekend . |
| 4 | He is chairman of the authority that has taken over the 16,200 hectare ( 40,000 acre ) site and mayor of Olongapo City , the town that grew up alongside the base . |
| 5 | It is far easier from their point of view if they only need to deal with one entity and they will probably prefer that to be the purchaser as it is the purchaser that has taken over the business . |
| 6 | Although such characteristics probably do play some secondary role , we find this interpretation unconvincing and suspect that it stems from a need to make a connection with what are perceived as the relatively more ‘ attractive ’ features of psychosis , rather than with those emphasised in descriptions of schizophrenia , a concept that has taken on almost entirely negative connotations . |
| 7 | Robertson was speaking about professional pride as opposed to wallowing in excessive sentimentality when he catalogued the reasons why there was only eager anticipation of the friendly fixture that has taken on a hostile look since injury decimated Roxburgh 's initial choice of players . |
| 8 | Secondly , at the time when the flight from the land became a cultural European fact , a time evoked in rural England by Laurie Lee in Cider with Rosie , David Thomson witnessed the same poignant development in Ireland , but with undertones of old scores and the curious mixture of religion and politics that has taken so long to biodegrade . |
| 9 | The Italians fought with great courage , especially in 1917 when they stopped a superior axis force that threatened to take over the whole of the northern part of the country . |
| 10 | ‘ He also showed a remarkable capacity to look at any form of contract and identify both the things that needed taking out and what has been wrongly omitted . |
| 11 | She slumps back on the floor , still finding it nearly impossible to speak as every word that emerges takes on new lives and dimensions of its own . |
| 12 | So what we 'll do is we 'll put that , that means take away , right ? |
| 13 | That means take away , if it 's between two numbers it means take away . |
| 14 | The PLO , of course , saw its often murderous operations as a sacred duty ; they were fighting the occupying power that had taken away the land of the Palestinians . |
| 15 | This was the emotion he had tried to purge himself of by identifying with the snakes that had taken up residence in the ashes of his family 's land . |
| 16 | And although Bryan Forbes made a stab at backing British filmmakers as head or production for EMI , the company that had taken over ABPC in 1969 , announcing 14 projects within months of taking over his new post , the line-up did not give the impression that he was in touch with any new sources of cinematic excitement . |
| 17 | In 1985 the firm changed from a federal structure of 12 individual practices into a single unit — a process that had taken more than three years to achieve . |
| 18 | Those X-rays , that had taken so long to photograph , that lengthy session when I had got so friendly with the big machine , had so far resulted in nothing . |
| 19 | The bacteria fed initially on the various carbon compounds that had taken so many millions of years to accumulate in the primordial seas . |
| 20 | I fed a CD of Hugh Masekela into the machine and fought back the urge to get my trumpet out and play along , ruminating on the injustice of a world that had taken so long to discover him . |
| 21 | So I would agree with what Tom said on the sort of , things , yeah , you know , knock that together , we 've got that on one piece of paper already that 's about two years out of date , well , was up to date two years ago , which I could probably dig out for you , and then erm we 've got , we can even do it from a European sort of view point , which just has a few things there that need taking up . |
| 22 | And all , all the other things we 've listed out that have taken up time of the team were n't being done in September . |
| 23 | Their bodies have become greatly flattened , their pectoral fins enlarged into undulating lateral triangles that have taken over the function of locomotion . |
| 24 | a desire that 's taken away from you . |
| 25 | Those that refused to take up their rights could have offset their losses by selling their 200 rights at 5p each ; i.e. 10 . |